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  • Advocacy Briefs

    Gabriella Virginia Folsom | Jan 29, 2021

    During the uncertainty of a global pandemic, a tumultuous election cycle, and increasing scrutiny of historians and their efforts, the...
  • Advocacy Briefs

    Gabriella Virginia Folsom | Dec 23, 2020

    The AHA is committed to defending practices that allow historians to conduct their research freely and to access records in archives at home and abroad.
  • Pressing Pause

    Laura Ansley | Dec 14, 2020

    History graduate programs had to make quick decisions this fall about whether to proceed with admitting students in 2021.
  • Advocacy Briefs

    Gabriella Virginia Folsom | Nov 30, 2020

    In October, the AHA advocated for historians by protecting professional standards, defended historians' free speech, encouraged debate and challenging ideas...
  • Advocacy Briefs

    Gabriella Virginia Folsom | Oct 30, 2020

    In August and September, the AHA sent letters and released statements relating to a National Women's History Museum, the White...
  • Declassification Slowdown

    Alexandra F. Levy | Oct 27, 2020

    The State Department's Office of the Historian faced challenges on multiple fronts in 2019. 
  • Expanding the Genre

    Laura Ansley | Oct 22, 2020

    In You Never Forget Your First, Alexis Coe breaks away from hagiography to craft a biography of George Washington that appeals to new audiences.
  • Advocacy Briefs

    Gabriella Virginia Folsom | Aug 18, 2020

    The AHA has continued its advocacy work around the COVID-19 crisis during summer 2020.
  • Rumors of War Arrives in the South

    Ryan K. Smith | May 18, 2020

    The erection of a Kehinde Wiley statue in the former Confederate capital is part of Richmond's latest struggle with Civil War history.
  • Finding the Funny

    Laura Ansley | May 13, 2020

    History hits the comedy stage at the Philly Improv Theater.

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